{"id":4659,"date":"2018-11-13T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-11-13T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stlouisdad.com\/s\/?p=4659"},"modified":"2018-11-13T11:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-11-13T17:00:00","slug":"how-to-be-a-good-dad-after-a-relationship-breakdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stlouisdad.com\/s\/how-to-be-a-good-dad-after-a-relationship-breakdown\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Be A Good Dad After A Relationship Breakdown"},"content":{"rendered":"

A relationship breakdown is difficult, and is made even harder to deal with when there are children involved. Your beautiful, innocent children are now going to have to live without their parents being together and for some children, it\u2019s a really difficult transition. The worst thing about your breakup is that you will no longer be able to see your children every single day. You may miss large milestones in their lives and that\u2019s heartbreaking. However, it\u2019s important to remember that they are the most important thing to think about right now, so here are some tips on how to be a good Dad after a <\/span>relationship breakdown<\/span><\/a> so that they have the best life possible.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Call them every day<\/span><\/h2>\n

Some Fathers think that if they shower their children with gifts and material things that they can get away with not calling their children every day. A simple fact is, your children want you in their lives and while they might love gifts, a simple phone call each day will make the world of difference. Chatting to them (and their mother) about their day and asking if there\u2019s any way that you can help will show your children that nothing has changed apart from the fact that their parents no longer live together. It will also help you stay in the loop of your child\u2019s life!<\/span><\/p>\n

Know your rights<\/span><\/h2>\n

With relationship breakdowns come resentment, and sometimes Mothers stop contact between their children and their Fathers. It\u2019s important to make sure that you know what your rights are as a Father so that you\u2019re not missing out on precious time with your children. If you\u2019re not sure where to seek this information, it might be a good idea to hire a <\/span>Father\u2019s rights lawyer<\/span><\/a> to help walk you through the steps you should be taking. Remember that there\u2019s a difference between being stopped contact completely and simply having to negotiate the days you see your children.<\/span><\/p>\n

Keep your promises<\/span><\/h2>\n

One extremely important thing to remember is that if you promise to do something for your children and don\u2019t come through, they will remember. It\u2019s imperative to make sure that you don\u2019t give your children false hope. If you can\u2019t make it to their school play, tell them! Don\u2019t leave them thinking that you\u2019ll be there if you know full well that you won\u2019t be. Keeping your promises will also help your parenting relationship with their mother and may result in you seeing your children more.<\/span><\/p>\n

Keep any discrepancies away from the children<\/span><\/h2>\n

Finally, and possibly most importantly, make sure that you <\/span>keep any arguments or disagreements away from your children<\/span><\/a>. They simply want to see their parents and at times you will argue with their Mother, but protect them from seeing anything like that by discussing matters in private. If they can see that their parents are able to be civil they will find the breakup a much easier situation to deal with.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A relationship breakdown is difficult, and is made even harder to deal with when there are children involved. Your beautiful, innocent children are now going to have to live without their parents being together and for some children, it\u2019s a really difficult transition. The worst thing about your breakup is that you will no longer […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4660,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"How To Be A Good Dad After A Relationship Breakdown #dadbloggers","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1,276],"tags":[12,816,147,155,817],"class_list":["post-4659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","category-family","tag-blog-2","tag-breakups","tag-family","tag-kids","tag-relationships"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/stlouisdad.com\/s\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/teddybear.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5JMKA-1d9","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stlouisdad.com\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stlouisdad.com\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stlouisdad.com\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stlouisdad.com\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stlouisdad.com\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4659"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stlouisdad.com\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4659\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4661,"href":"https:\/\/stlouisdad.com\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4659\/revisions\/4661"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stlouisdad.com\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stlouisdad.com\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stlouisdad.com\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stlouisdad.com\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}